n. In a general sense, meal or flour. Specificallyn. A soft, tasteless, and commonly white flour, obtained by trituration of the seeds of cereal and leguminous plants, and of some roots, as the potato. It consists of gluten, starch, and mucilage.n. A preparation of white maize in granular form, coarser than meal, but finer than hominy. It is used for puddings, etc.n. In botany, the pollen of flowers.n. In entomology, a mealy powder found on some insects. See farinose